Walter E. Williams: Some at universities teach hatred for the U.S.

Brothers
Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who are accused of setting the bombs that
exploded at the Boston Marathon, attended the University of Massachusetts.
Maybe they hated our nation before college, but if you want lessons on hating
America, college attendance might be a good start. Let’s look at it.

“We need
to think very, very clearly about who the enemy is. The enemy is the United
States of America and everyone who supports it.” That’s taught to University of
Hawaii students by professor Haunani-Kay Trask. Richard Falk, professor
emeritus at Princeton University and the U.N. Human Rights Council’s Palestine
monitor, explained the Boston bombings by saying, “The American global domination
project is bound to generate all kinds of resistance in the post-colonial
world.” Professor Falk has also stated that President George W. Bush ordered
the destruction of the twin towers.

University
of Southern California professor Darry Sragow preaches hate to his students in
his regulation of elections and political finance class, recently telling them
that Republicans are stupid, racist losers and that they are angry old white
people. A few years ago, Rod Swanson, a UCLA economics professor, told his class,
“The United States of America, backed by facts, is the greediest and most
selfish country in the world.”

Penn
State University professor Matt Jordan compared supporters of the voter ID laws
to the Ku Klux Klan. Professor Sharon Sweet, an algebra teacher at Brevard
Community College, told her students to sign a pledge that read, “I pledge to
vote for President Obama and Democrats up and down the ticket.” Fortunately,
the college’s trustees fired her.

Then
there’s Georgetown law professor Louis Michael Seidman, who explained our
national problems by saying, “But almost no one blames the culprit: our
insistence on obedience to the Constitution, with all its archaic,
idiosyncratic and downright evil provisions.” Professor Seidman worked for The
Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia. When he was sworn in as
an officer of the court, I wonder what constitution he swore to uphold and
defend.

Parents
don’t have to wait for college admission for their youngsters to receive
America-hating lessons. Scott Compton, an English teacher at Chapin High School
in Chapin, S.C., was put on administrative leave after he allegedly threw an
American flag on the floor and stomped on it in front of his students. He has
chosen to resign.

An
Advanced Placement world geography teacher at Lumberton High School in Texas
encouraged students to dress in Islamic clothing and instructed them to refer
to the 9/11 hijackers not as terrorists but as “freedom fighters.” They were
also told to stop referring to the Holocaust as genocide. John Valastro, the
superintendent of the Lumberton Independent School District, told Fox News that
the teacher did absolutely nothing wrong.

In
McAllen, teachers tried to force a teenager to sing the Mexican national anthem
and recite Mexico’s pledge of allegiance. The teen refused, saying it was
against her beliefs as an American. She was thrown out of the class and given a
failing grade for that day’s assignment. Her father has filed a lawsuit on
behalf of his daughter against the McAllen Independent School District.

Investor’s
Business Daily ran a story
that shows student indoctrination is official union policy: “A New Low From The
California Federation Of Teachers: Urine Indoctrination.” The union’s website
has a cartoon narrated by leftist Hollywood actor Ed Asner. In tones used when
reading to children, Asner says: “[Rich people] love their money more than
anything in the whole world. ... Over time, rich people decided they weren’t
rich enough, so they came up with ways to get richer.” The cartoon finishes its
class warfare message by graphically depicting “the rich” urinating on the
poor.

These
people running our education system are destroying the minds and values of our
young people, and we allow them to do it.

WALTER E. WILLIAMS is a professor of
economics at George Mason University. His column is distributed by Creators
Syndicate Inc.

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